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I 4-11 The News and Observer, Sunday, Sept. 30, 1973 Staff phote by Steve Murray Hitting was the name of the game for Missouri and here they get UNC's Bill Paschall Missouri Dumps Carolina Continued 1 from Page 1 dodged past halfback Earl Chesson, and went in untouched. Late in the period, the Tigers drove 65 yards in 10 plays to go ahead 14-0. Third and eight situations were converted twice during the drive, once on a sweep by Reamon and once on a pass from Cherry to split end Jim Sharp. On third and four at the nine, Missouri lined up in a closely- power formation, faked a handoff, and scored easily on a soft pass from Cherry to tight end John Kelsey, who was all alone.

Greg Hill kicked the point with 23 seconds left in the quarter. Carolina, its inside running game wiped out by the Missouri defense, didn't make a first down until Kupec kept for nine on an option play early in the second quarter. That's when he suffered his injury. Neither team sustained a drive during that quarter until the final three minutes when Carolina drove 87 yards in 10 plays. Johnson Runs 33 A 33-yard scamper by Sammy Johnson on the option pitch got the Tar Heels moving for the first time in the game.

Paschall ran for 11, completed passes to Charles Waddell and Jerome, and suddenly the ball was at the eight with 40 seconds left. A second down pass to Dick Oliver moved the ball inches from the goal and Paschall sneaked it over with 20 seconds on the clock. Dale Alexander's kick made it 14-7. If that march gave the Tar Heels some new life, Missouri quickly changed the atmosphere in the third quarter. The Tigers again scored on their first possession, this time on a 67-yard advance in nine plays.

A 23-yard run by Reamon to the outside and a third and ten pass from Cherry to Sharp were the keys. Sharp eluded half- UNC Getting Thin at QB; Paschall Is New Regular 8 ed at the five and Missouri recovered. The Tar Heels got the ball back three plays later on a fumble by Reamon at the 16. They took it in from there after Billy Hite made a first down on fourth and one from the seven. On second down from the four, Paschall executed a fine fake to the tailback and scored through the right side.

It was 24-14 with 3:27 left in the quarter. Last Score Neither team could move on its next two possessions, but a turnover on a Paschall fumble gave Missour the ball at the UNC 28 midway in the fourth period. The Tigers got to the 11, where Hill kicked a field goal with 5:16 left that made it 27-14. Neither team threatened thereafter. Carolina, led by a sparkling performance by tackle Ron Robinson, was tough inside against the run.

Most of the ground it yielded was on the flanks. Virtually the same pattern held forth when Carolina had the ball. The Tar Heels couldn't dent the interior, as their pet plays were piled up repeatedly by the Missouri defense. They had to go outside to move and Paschall was the key with his quickness on on the option. He actually gained 93 yards, but was charged with 25 in losses trying to pass.

The difference in the game was turnovers, Missouri having a 5-1 advantage. INDIVIDUAL RUSHING Missouri (attempts, yards), Reamon (19-105), Bybee (21-86); North Carolina Paschall (20-68), Johnson (7-39). INDIVIDUAL PASSING Missouri (completions, attempts, yards), Cherry (8-13-64); North Carolina Paschall (9-15-115). INDIVIDUAL RECEIVING Missouri (receptions, yards), Sharp (428); North Carolina Waddell (3-32), Bethea (3-38). Staff photo by Steve Murray Tiger Henry Marshall can't hang on back Kip Arnall to make a first down at the 17 and Reamon scored on a sweep on the next play.

Moments later, linebacker Lynn Evans intercepted a Paschall pass and returned it 18 yards to the UNC. 20. The Tar Heels held and Hill kicked a 32- yard field goal, making it 24-7 only five minutes into the third quarter. Carolina, led by the option running of Paschall and passes to Waddell and Earle Bethea, drove from its 29 to the Missouri five after the kickoff. But Paschall fumbl- 'Bomb' Gives Virginia 7-3 3 Win over Duke Continued from Page 1 field and personally accumulated 209 yards total offense.

The punting of both teams, Maxwell for the Cavs and Jeff Christopher for the Blue Devils, highlighted the defensive struggle. Each averaged at least 40. yards. Neither team threatened again until late in the third quarter. Steve Sraba intercepted a Johnson pass at the Duke 33.

But Virginia gave up the ball two plays later when fullback Copeland fumbled at the Blue Devils' 22. The fourth quarter belonged to Duke and it appeared the Blue Devils finally would pull this Atlantic Coast Conference game out of the fire. Virginia's Doug Jones stymied the first threat with an interception of a Spears' pass at the Cav 17, but Duke quickly forced a Max- well punt and, moving from the Cavalier 45 drove to the 9-yard line with more than nine minutes to play. After Johnson gained two yards on a keeper and a pass fell incomplete, Duke called its final timeout with nine minutes remaining. The Blue Devils faced a third and goal situation at the seven and Coach Mike McGee believed the tempo of the game indicated this could be the Dukes' final opportunity.

On third down, yet another pass was broken up, this time on a brilliant play by defensive back Tony Zmudzin who knocked the ball away from split end Ben Fordham at the last second. Again, the Cavs came up with the crusher as junior linebacker Jim Grobe crashed through the Duke line and sacked Johnson for a loss of nine yards on fourth down. Staff Writer GREENVILLE East Summerell around left end in Carolina, continuing its the third quarter. Had the Blue Dukes earlier have gone for remarkable from a His run capped the only the field goal and succeeded, another could recovery sustained march the Pirates have provided a winning Duke margin. But season defense opening of its Southern could capitalize on.

They setback, began there was no crystal ball McGee's grasp started on their 27 after Furwhen the decision was made; there was a Saturday night with a home- man failed on a fake field-goal Conference championship chart that indicated the decision made was try and reached the end zone in the best bet. opening, 14-3 win over Fur- 11 plays. Duke's offense consistently threatened and man. sputtered, a malady McGee hopes to resolve. It was the third straight im- The versatile ECU he said, "We must avoid the pressive victory for Sonny back was a major factor in the mistakes.

Our pass protection was not good. Randle's Pirates, who dropped drive as he hit end Vic Wilfore "On defense, we must improve markedly, their opener 57-8 to N. C. State. for 12 yards, kept himself for both in the pass rush and in the secondary, And, while this triumph wasn't 14, and on anohter keeper was he said.

as decisive as the previous the recipient of a late hit from Duke, although intercepting two Scott two, it was a victory over a a Paladin that resulted in 11- Gardner passes, gave up 226 yards in the air previously unbeaten team. yard penalty. as the Cavalier sophomore quarterback com- As has been the case for the Two plays later Summerell pleted 12 of 25 attempts, including one for last two seasons, the East pitched to Strayhorn and Ken Virginia's score. Carolina defense starred in scrambled into the end zone this Ficklen Stadium battle, with the first points of the Lawrence Not Surprised played before 16,270 fans. night.

Virginia Coach Don Lawrence, perspiring Strong Defense Furman marched right back, but elated, said he was not surprised the Cavs moving from its 28 to the ECU pulled the upset. The Pirate defenders, lead 8 where Gary Niclason "I expected to win," he said, "because by hard-charging end Cary recovered a fumble for the we've got good players and good coaches. Godette of Havelock, Bucs. When we fumbled the opening kickoff, I knew recovered three Two plays later, the Pirated we would stop them. We have a lot of con- fumbles and sacked the three gave it right back, with Paladin quarterbacks several diminutive Vine Perone pickLawrence also believes the victory is what times in key situations.

Fur- ing off a Summerell pass and the Cavs need to start a new trend. "It's been man finished the night with returning it to the home team's said of us that we cannot win the big ones, but only 12 yards rushing as ECU 21. that's past. We broke through the negative won the statistical fight. TD Prevented wall today." Kenny Strayhorn of Trenton, Although the Paladins got Virginia's defensive arose manfully in this a fast-footed sophomore, came three points out of this Pirate ACC contest, and time and again broke Duke on as a substitute for tailback error, the ECU defenders disthreats.

Lawrence termed the unit's play Carlester Crumpler to pace the played their strength Pirate ground game, which etheless. After Furman picked GERALD MARTIN amassed 304 yards. "Little" up a first down at the Pirate 3, Mike McGee Gambled On Timeout and Lost CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. This game is the one Mike McGee will play and replay over and over again. It will not change the outcome of Saturday's 7-3 loss Virginia but you do not easily forget the scoring opportunities that went awry or the timeouts that were not there when needed.

"Hindsight is wonderful," lamented McGee, the Duke coach, following the stunning Virginia upset. He didn't mean it. Hindsight often is agonizing and certainly it must be for McGee. His Duke Blue Devils went for broke with more than eight minutes remaining, using their last timeout to set the strategy. Although Duke was within field goal range inside Virginia's 10-yard line McGee did not foresee another opportunity later in the final quarter.

Indeed, he could not have conceived of a last minute drive and a winning field goal. TD Needed Virginia's defense, spearheaded by linebackers Jim Grobe and Dick Ambrose had repeatedly throttled the Blue Devils' offense and McGee sought to take advantage of this opportunity. His team needed a touchdown to win and they went for it. "Since we had not been that deep," McGee explained, "I thought we should take all the precautions to execute properly." Thus, the timeout. "I thought a touchdown was very important at that Duke failed to score the TD and when it moved within field goal range in the closing minute, a three-pointer would have been useless.

By DOUG MEAD Staff Writer CHAPEL HILL What stronger appeared to positions one on the be of University of North Carolina football team has suddenly become one shorn of experience. In two weeks the Tar Heels have lost their top two quarterbacks. Last week starter Nick Vidnovic suffered a back injury and Saturday, second stringer Chris Kupec broke his collar bone in a 27-14 loss 1 to Missouri. Kupec was replaced by sophomore Billy Paschall early in the second quarter. Paschall rallied the UNC offense, but was guilty of fumbling twice and getting passes intercepted twice.

The baby-faced, Virginia Beach, Va. native completed nine of 15 passes for 115 yards and ran for an additional 68 as he kept the Tiger defense offbalance with his scrambling tactics off UNC's option play. Didn't Expect to Play Paschall admitted that when the season began he didn't expect to be called on to direct the Tar Heel offense, at least not this year. "With two great quarterbacks like Nick and Chris in front of me I didn't plan on doing any more than hold for an occasional extra point try," he said. "But I really didn't mind because I knew I'd get my chance eventually." Paschall's opportunity, came sooner than expected and despite his four turnovers, UNC Coach Bill Dooley was pleased with the play of his sophomore signal caller.

"I think Billy did a heckuva job for a sophomore," he said. "And the rest of the team gave the type effort North Carolina teams of the past have given. But you can't turn the ball over as many times as we did (five) and expect to beat a team like Missouri." However, Paschall, who also pitches on UNC's baseball team, could find little to be happy about in the tomb-like Carolina dressing room. To Start vs. Pack "There's no satisfaction in losing, no matter what circumstances it's under," he said.

"The only fun is winning. And I think it might have been a different game if it hadn't been for those fumbles." With both Vidnovic and Kupec out for indefinite periods of time, this puts Paschall in the spotlight for next week's regionally televis- A 51-yard field goal attempt by Virginia's since Joe Jenkins failed late in the period and Duke Duke got its final opportunity with 3:23 remaining Virginia and no timeouts left. After one running attempt, Duke passed for the remainder of the drive. Johnson came up with a couple of clutch tosses on third down after moving the Blue Devils out of a hole with a 30-yard completion to Cobb. Facing a fourth and 23 situation Johnson hit Fordham for 27 yards to the Virginia 38 and a first down, then to Munday for 18 on fourth down to the Cavaliers' 14.

Duke quit running, but the clock didn't. The victory, Virginia's first over Duke Pirates Stop Furman East Carolina First downs 14 21 Punts Passes Return Passing Fumbles-lost Rushes-yards yards yards 18-27-0 30-12 7-35 183 4-3 64-304 6-19-2 4-24 1-1 68 Penalties- 4-46 $115 By ROY BROWN Ge Staff phote by Steve Murry Carolina's Charles Waddell (85) hauls in pass for Tar Heels Jerry Williams gets ready for tackle ed game with N. C. State at Carter Stadium. "I haven't, really thought much the State game," he said.

"I feel like I should be ready to play any time the need arises and it shouldn't be any different next week." Vidnovic currently has three cracked vertebrae and will be out for longer than had been originally anticipated. "I definitely will not play in the State game," said Nick. "And I'm not really sure when I'll be back. you ask three doctors and you get three different answers. But there could be 1969, evened its record at 2-2, while fell to 1-2 and 0-1 in the ACC race.

is 1-1 in the conference. INDIVIDUAL RUSHING Duke (attempts, yards), Johnson (18-46), a Landen (14-57); Virginia Gardner (12-33), Merritt (12-45). INDIVIDUAL PASSING Duke (completions, a attempts, yards) Johnsen (9-19 -155), Spears Virginia Gardner (12-25-226). INDIVIDUAL RECEPTIONS Duke (receptions, yards) Brienza (1-8). Cobb (3-04), Fordham (3-55), Munday (2-20); Virginia Davis (4-77), Bennett (2-26), Celleran (2-32).

Merritt (4-91). Furman three plays wound up losing eight yards, most of the loss coming on third down when Godette sacked Paladin quarterback David Whittenhurst. On fourth down, kicking specialist SI Standiford booted a 28-yard field goal that put the Paladins back in it with left in the contest. The Pirates, who spent much of the night threatening the Furman goal, marched back to the Furman 18 before giving the ball up on downs when a Summerell pass fell incomplete with 5:40 left. Four palys later, Godette wrapped up the issue for East Carolina.

He racked Furman quarterback Mike Shelton, then recovered gained seven yards on first down and fullback Don Schink picked up 11 on second for first-andgoal at the visitors' 5. On third down, Schink burst through right guard and went in standing up for the touchdown with 1:24 left. Jim Woody's second extra point kick made it 14-3. Three Quarterbacks Furman unleashed a barrage of quarterbacks to harry East Carolina defense. Whitehurst started, but Coach Art Baker showed little reluctance to use either junior Charles Elvington or senior Mike Shelton.

All three were effective in the passing game. Furmen E. Carolina ECU-Strayhorn 4 run (Woody kick) Fur -FG Standiford 20 ECU-Schink 2 run (Woody kick) NYC serious consequences if I came back too soon and something happened." In back of Paschall are freshmen Carl Hoffman and Johnny Stratton, who dressed at halftime and would have seen action if Paschall had gotten hurt. Lamm Sidelined Dooley said he hadn't decided who would be relegated to back-up duty for the State game. "'We'll just wait and see what develops in practice this week," he said.

"Other than our two freshmen, Frank Towsend (second string defensive back) was a quarterback in high school. But I'm just really not sure at this Carolina also lost two other starters with injuries against the Tigers. Safety Phil Lamm suffered a hamstring pull in the first quarter and never returned while linebacker Terry Taylor suffered a knee injury in the second half. Both are question marks for the State game. Over in the Missouri locker room, Coach Al Onofrio cited the first and third quarters as probably turning points.

"Those two periods were charge quarters for us," he said. "We had to move the football then and did." Missouri scored 14 of its points in the opening 16 minutes and drove the length of the field for its third touchdown to open 1 the second half. A BOUNTIETL FARTEST OF AUTUMN STRIPES We offer the season's finest selection of our striped suitings. It's time now to inspect genius latest of our harvest, staff. and enjoy the fitting Varsity Men's Wear Hillsborough St.

and Crabtree Valley Mall Horn racked up 146 yards on 27 carries for the night. Strayhorn Gets TD The 5-9 200-pound back also scored the first of the two Pirate touchdowns after taking a pitch from quarterback Carl.